From SIRI to self-driving cars, artificial intelligence (AI) is progressing rapidly. While science fiction often portrays AI as robots with human-like characteristics, AI can encompass anything from Google’s search algorithms to IBM’s Watson to autonomous weapons. Artificial intelligence today is properly known as narrow AI (or weak AI), in that it is designed to perform a narrow task (e.g. only facial recognition or only internet searches or only driving a car). However, the long-term goal of many researchers is to create general AI (AGI or strong AI). While narrow AI may outperform humans at whatever its specific task is, like playing chess or solving equations, AGI would outperform humans at nearly every cognitive task.
By using image analytics technology, we expect to improve the airport’s ability to move passengers from arrival through security to their departure gate and significantly boost capacity.
Owing to the increasing global population and demand for doctors, robot surgeons are a must for the 21st century. Besides filling in for human surgeons, robot surgeons can actually do better in most cases. Surgery procedures require utmost patience and precision, and the skill of medical surgeons does not falter even when they operate without pause for hours and hours. Therefore, robotic assistants in surgeries can further help the surgeon achieve a new level of precision even for the most minute movement.
Companies use AI-based robotics combined with a human workforce to execute manufacturing and supply chain tasks. AI-powered robotics in manufacturing has generated proven results in the proper handling of materials, test performances, and packing finished products. The use of artificial intelligence in the manufacturing of cars makes the manufacturing process swift as robots are given the responsibility to use their deep learning programs to determine which parts to pick and how to pick.
